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Synex Gallente BIG Majesta Empire	Posted - 2010.04.07 18:14:00 - [31] My beta memories... - Syndicate was largely unmapped, with no names on the gates, so the most expensive thing you could by was a map of Syndicate (as it seperated empire regions). - Mining Ark in (Rancer?) something beginning with R... - Armaggedon day when we all got max skills etc. Release: (tough to remember now!) - Having NO autopilot / warp to zero / auto-dock. It was all manual. - Having to type /cmd autopilot on in chat to switch on the autopilot - Everyone was aiming for Armageddon / Apoc as they were the best mining ships. - CU Vapor miners we're 5M / unit and that was CRAZY expensive. - Good mid-range ship was the Thorax. - Badass Cruiser rats. - Iteron V was THE industrial ship to have, but took forEVER to train for. - No Advanced Learning skills, Implants... nothing. - Implants handed out as specific agent rewards after running 200 missions. - Concord agents - Agent bribing to raise standing - L3 agents were the best. - No Shuttles - Interbus (Never worked) - No clone jumping - The 3D Radar ( I want that back! ) - Starry eyes, and lots of dreams. Synex BIG
eliminator2 Gallente	Posted - 2010.04.07 18:15:00 - [32] i joined before warp to 0 and it was epic gate camps where epic and fun as hell and battles were more often and less cap fights happened ----------------------------------------------- I met Eliminator1..... I chewed it up, and spat it out. Now, he is my minion. I kill miners and mission runners people say, I call them target pra
000Hunter000 Gallente Industrial Exploits Massive Intergalactic Love Klub	Posted - 2010.04.07 18:30:00 - [33] Ahhhh... Eve in 2004... When men where men, and women where men as well... Curse alliance was the big boy on the block and they were just a bunch of corps cuz there weren't even alliance systems in place... Inties and AF's where the only T2 ships and BS where the biggest ships in game and u would gaze in awe at them. Lots of systems where empty, u could spend days in them without seeing a single other soul... and 0.0 was still worth fighting for... and u could actually go there as a noob without running into a gatecamp with bubbles and other crap the first jump... sigh... yes, i must admit, i think eve was a better place then, less asshats too, but, one cannot stop progress... ________________________________________________
Kingwood Amarr V.I.P Industries United Front Alliance	Posted - 2010.04.07 18:33:00 - [34] Joined 2006, quit half a year after to start playing again end of 2007. I remember Eve wasn't this crowded and blobs were less common. I remember thinking I'd reached end game when I could fly a Prophecy after 2 months with mostly all gunnery skills at lvl 2-3. Also: > A carrier was a sight to see, I specifically joined a 0.0 corp in 2006 to catch a sight of a carrier. Caps now are as common as Battleships > Nos-Pilgrims and Curses were awesome > Amarr sucked (except for the Recons) > Tier 2 BCs didn't exist > Titans were non-existant
NereSky Gallente Maelstrom Crew Underworld Excavators	Posted - 2010.04.07 18:49:00 - [35] 'The Great Northern war' was kicking off when i started - this got me into politics ingame, the bad feelings there ran very deep and still reverberate even now :)lol remember being given a frigate and told go there :) Also remember the then NC fighting PA & Curse and Evolution were fightin' alongside the then North with Jade (before Evol created BoB and entered Fountain. - Yulai and Zombies, Battles against FE in Tribute, - The Five - Mines - great fun with concorde when a forgotton mine u owned went off while u was in Empire and running from concorde (like a Benny hill moment, - so many great moments tbh but the ones that stand out more for me was with Cereal killerz and Rocko Monkeybone, Fountain Alliance moving out of Fountain, ASCN folding, - lots of battles later on in Delve/Fountain where CODA kicked FIX and just before they totally crumbled BOB helped them (after BoB popped a Egg) another historical moment was ECP8R where BoB & ASCN shut off that system and well destroyed everything destroyable, - another Alliance which i miss are the MC whatever pilots want to believe they were kick ass, oh and thinking of the MC - can art :)that shark was cool, - sorry its not all in date order but these memories are just flooding through :)
Giuseppe Sacco The Scope	Posted - 2010.04.07 19:11:00 - [36] Originally by: NereSky can art Yeah, can art! That's one I can remember (Late late '07/ Trinity newb). Anchored cans and abandoned ships in safe spots used to be permanent unless destroyed by players, as opposed to disappearing after 30 days of no interaction. That resulted in people spending hours making elaborate designs AND in the Molea cemetery, where some guy collected a bunch of corpses and anchored them in cans at a ringed gas giant. It was a long line of cans of corpses, kind of cool looking -- then post-nerf the guy put up a POS and moved the cans there to keep them from going poof. Goons destroyed the POS and the cemetery with it in September of '08.
Jim Lovell Gallente Jotunheimr Productions Ltd. Talos Coalition	Posted - 2010.04.07 19:22:00 - [37] Duripant, nix killjoy, vogon, ashley sky, big doggy, ore theft, and then .....titans.....ooooo (I luved vogons visitors page) Man you should have seen eve back when concurrent users just hit 13k lols
Klingz Gallente	Posted - 2010.04.07 20:08:00 - [38] Edited by: Klingz on 07/04/2010 20:11:58 Edited by: Klingz on 07/04/2010 20:11:01 I joined back in feb 2004... > We got Christmas gifts from CCP. (Have some of 'em still in my inventory: "Blood Drop", "Bone Splinter", "Epidermis Sliver", "Snowball Launchers" that you'd load with snowballs (didn't do any dmg). > We could chain rats - did make me some good isk there. > 700+ ppl fight in VV-VCR. > Lag-fest at gates in 0.0 by 20-30 ships dropping 10 drones each, eating everything tring to pass... -Yes we could use 10 drones back then. > Splash damage didn't flag you - you could shoot on a corp-mate in systems, and kill others and take their loot or thire pod, even in high-sec > If you got podded, without a updated clone... You had to start _all_ over again... from your basic clone... (Heared about a guy who did this, he lost like 20-24 mill SP, and did get a response from CCP, "Sorry mate, insuffcient clone, your bad!") > When we roamed around in Battleships. > There was one then one BIG tradehubs. > When Ore Thefting was a respected "proffesion". > When you could mine in low-sec. Edit: -and the petition system "worked"... you got a response from CCP within 48 hours ------------ Dozar Klingz I smoke.... It's not easy to be green when you're small. But it's worse to be a cowered when you're big. Smokers are also humens... but not that long...
Stef TBE Caldari Just Another Corp Okay	Posted - 2010.04.07 20:12:00 - [39] Oooooooh, Cavalry ravens Splash damage from torps Several thousand bookmarks for all regions Flying and / or mining in lo-sec ... and not seeing anyone for days Gate rats in hi-sec (still <3 those killer8 flash vids)
Captain Pompous Is Right Even When He's Wrong So Deal With It	Posted - 2010.04.07 20:12:00 - [40] Well, I wasn't in it before I joined so I guess that automatically makes it worse than it is now --- Even though you might disagree with what I say, that doesn't automatically make me a troll.
Andrea Griffin	Posted - 2010.04.07 20:16:00 - [41] Originally by: Orree Frequent in-game faction "events" and the ability to interact with CCP representiatives acting on behalf of the various factions. Every time I hear about this, I feel like I'm really missing out on something.
Jerid Verges Gallente The Society of Innovation The Last Stand	Posted - 2010.04.07 20:24:00 - [42] It was 2008 right after Empryean Age. -People were whining about the nano nerf. -There were no skill queues. -Orca didn't exist yet. -Unholy Rage hadn't happened. (In fact, after I quit Eve. Unholy Rage news got me interested in coming back). -Character creation was a complex affair with consequences for wrong choices. -Achura were everywhere. -BoB and Goonswarm still in the game.
Atticus Fynch	Posted - 2010.04.07 20:41:00 - [43] Well, way way back mining looked like this: mining please note the rat in the asteroid field.
Ten Dollah	Posted - 2010.04.07 21:08:00 - [44] Originally by: Atticus Fynch Well, way way back mining looked like this: mining please note the rat in the asteroid field. Oh my general 'Stopzilla growl'
Cikulisuy Amarr The Maverick Navy IT Alliance	Posted - 2010.04.07 21:45:00 - [45] scary as hell. was out in losec on my second day and started dodging the sharks of the deep. no scripts, no scrambler changes, polycarbon was the king of rigs and speed was the king of combat. nanoishtars incredibly difficult to kill and 13 km/s interceptors weren't totally uncommon. curse was a battlefield of small entities flying mostly nanogangs, and boy was being a nanocurse pilot fun :) nub> you cant mine so you kill.
Kairg Caldari United Operations	Posted - 2010.04.07 22:46:00 - [46] - I think missiles did splash damage - You could fit cruise(torps?) to a kestrel - The voice ("capacitor is empty", etc) was a bloke - Mines - 1 million isk felt like a lot _____________________________________________________ Under construction
NightCrawler 85 Phoibe Enterprises	Posted - 2010.04.08 00:20:00 - [47] Neutral players would automaticly be tought about as friends,piracy were in general frowned upon and there was no official alliances as i can recall. Also POS's were rather new. Oh and a corp member was so proud to be the first one to have a REAL mining ship (barge) and they changed the whole how you had to click around to see your high/med/low slots like two days after i started :) Yulai was the main trade hub,mOo was still around and syndicate was the ultimate pirate heaven and creating gate to gate bookmarks was an art. Ohh and think that the 5k people online record was set around then as well. I miss being new and how exiting everything was back then :) And to the op..Like the topic,very intersting to read trough these :) Phoibe Enterprises
Captain Sonic R E D E M P T I O N Black Star Alliance	Posted - 2010.04.08 00:28:00 - [48] ohh think the patch was called "Castor" or sumthing anyway it had like 3 buttons that u had to press to acces the low/med/high slots and during fleet fights u had to pick one to use cuz as soon as lag hit you couldnt change it the REAL gankageddon with 8x heatsinks NO STACKING PENALTY (give back plz) dual MWD thoraxes with 10x heavy drones (win) Domis with 15x drones that silly target Ring that only showd your targets shield and armor not the hull dmg NO FOOOOKIN POS's :D PVP'rs were forgiven if they were cought mining cuz it was the only way to make isk rly taking 15 mins to take a station with 10-20 BS's The first and ONLY Great Northern War (seriusly call ur wars sumthing else) with COD (Coalition of Dekline) FU (Fade Union) NORAD (dont remember if it ment sumthing lol) forming the NCA (Northern Coalition of Allies) against the south forces then merging with Unicorn (think i have it right) into the NSA (North star alliance or sumthing as silly) in the fight for 3JN, that concluding the Great northern war shortly after then: THE DEIMOS WAS ****IN AWESOM! want taht back :( tonns more that i dont remmber right now
Myxx Gallente Daughters of Venus Reborn	Posted - 2010.04.08 01:51:00 - [49] Edited by: Myxx on 08/04/2010 01:56:12 Edited by: Myxx on 08/04/2010 01:52:54 I joined in 2005 before the great northern war. BC's didn't exist (or maybe they did, I forget). There wasn't much T2, T2 was expensive as hell. Cruisers were respected and good ships. Jita wasn't a trade hub (i used to hang around in sobaseki, jita and nonni... each had at best 45 people in local... tops on a busy day), freighters were the biggest ships there were, outside of carriers and dreads. Motherships hadn't yet been produced, or if there were any, there weren't many yet. I remember watching the BOB/T2 thing go down on the forums. CCP Kieron was interesting. Devs had and commonly used jovian forum avatars. ISD player forum moderators and their editing of sigs to have colored text. I remember watching several of the old events teams events go down on an alt. I remember watching the old U'K/CVA/PIE wars on the IGS, all of the events that took place around it, too. 24-48 hour patch days. I remember reading all of the news about the scorpion being released and the story behind it, and who otro gariushi was. I remember watching the drama around the first titan builds, and the wars to destroy them before they were launched. I remember watching MC roll D2. I remember ASCN collapsing because of Cyvok. I used to mine in my imicus in jita and sobaseki with someone who was in a hulk at the time, i made what I believed to be a lot of money (it wasn't) CCP Mitnal raging about random stuff. CCP Kieron playing PR to make up for Mitnal (or, TomB, at times) No salvaging yet no wrecks (just cans) no fleets (gangs, instead) no eve voice old graphics Exodus UI. Stellar Shadows being the login music.
ZeeWolf Norfolk Heavy Industries Stellar Union	Posted - 2010.04.08 01:58:00 - [50] Originally by: Captain Sonic ... NORAD (dont remember if it ment sumthing lol) .. New Outer Ring Allied Democracy
Shiashi The Incorporated	Posted - 2010.04.08 03:10:00 - [51] Started in early 06 By far the funnest times i had in eve. -Huzzah V FIX somebody has to remember these fun times I <3 the ol fix days. I remember being chased around by AAA when they first formed in Q ahhh fun it was. Roaming the hed pipe with no WTZ ;)
Benri Konpaku	Posted - 2010.04.08 03:35:00 - [52] I should've started playing sooner. __________ "Welcome, to city 17. It's safer here."
Astro Glide Black Nova Corp IT Alliance	Posted - 2010.04.08 03:48:00 - [53] Originally by: Shiashi Edited by: Shiashi on 08/04/2010 03:21:31 Started in early 06 By far the funnest times i had in eve. -Huzzah V FIX somebody has to remember these fun times I <3 the ol fix days. I remember being chased around by AAA when they first formed in Q ahhh fun it was. Roaming the hed pipe with no WTZ ;) Ahhh, the good old days. SA vs FIX in 9CG mid 06 was good. No insta's for Q/Catch, having to tag along with gangs and hope I didn't miss a "train" to use the FC insta's. And no drakes.
NiM Cal	Posted - 2010.04.08 03:56:00 - [54] When I joined, in late 09, Goons and PL were relevant. The Domi had engine FX, the Catalyst wasn't scattered over a wide area, and the Jukebox actually worked(!).
voiddragon	Posted - 2010.04.08 03:56:00 - [55] Ishkur with 5 ogres, bantam with 5 hobgoblins. (glitch)
Barbens Black Lotus Foundation ST.FUABI	Posted - 2010.04.08 04:13:00 - [56] >Patch day was more like patch week >Drone boats could control up to 15 drones >Drones were stupid (more so than now!) >The NOS-Domi was king >Sensor damps were AMAZING >Guardian-Vexors were still listed on the market >The BEST Character you could make, started game with 80k SP
Ghoest	Posted - 2010.04.08 05:37:00 - [57] My Kestrel had 4 cruise missiles and they did full damage against everything including frigs. It also had 10mn AB fit on it and hauled ass. Wherever you went - Here you are.
eff one	Posted - 2010.04.08 07:32:00 - [58] On my first day I was killed by j0rt (in my trusty ibis) making a beeline for curse to apply for the mighty shinra corporation. RAWR
Unkn0wn	Posted - 2010.04.08 10:04:00 - [59] Edited by: Unkn0wn on 08/04/2010 10:10:22 Memory Lane, For me the early days were the best :) First day, Ninja mining with my corp from Beta in 0.4 trying to save up get an indy then start saving for BPOs. Should have just gone stright to 0.0, Ninja mining high-ends in a system with a station was magical. First 2 months, Moving to Fountain, the first few months where m0o became feared, me and some friends would attack them when bored with rookie ships just to get a kill mail from m0o. CCP told them to stop shoting rookie ships as it was hurting new players and so we waited till they came to fountain. Just m0o in general for being a great force in the early days. My First Apoc, had to be one of the first 50 on the server, spent weeks mining for that beat, and then almost lost it to chain spawning for 4 hours, saved by the friendly entity before he got removed from the game. Being Part of BoB from the start, never have a been part of a group that has been so focused for so long. Tech 2 was unheard off, BS did not exist and were being sold to the player base as Corprate assests (much like caps ships how), Research slots in empire were everywhere :P The Market was non existent for a while Playing around in 0.0 with little to no fear with a BS. Chain Spawning was great, Mining in hidden belts with station in system (it was that good I should say it again) Travel distance, Eve was massive, no warp to 0, I remember when 30 jumps would take over an hour :/
Myz Toyou APOCALYPSE LEGION	Posted - 2010.04.08 11:44:00 - [60] Jan 06 here. - was in 0.0 after 3-4 weeks and made my 1st Bil with selling Region BM sets to alliance members as warp to 0 wasnt yet introduced. - Tempest was king of every fleet battle - Vagabond ( 250mil ) with dual stabs was nearly untouchable - Carriers could enter static 0.0 plexes and over those was heavy fighting after every DT as they were goldmines ( Hi Hedgehogs in a Fog ) - saw the 1st Titan ingame just 1 hour after he came out of the oven - 15 - 20k max ppl online on a weekend - Cmdr Woodlouse was still playing - Backdoor Bandit made epic threads on CAOD - no Dronelands - saw RED being pushed back to 1 system and comeback from nearly dead - Burn Eden racking up kills with stabbed dampening cruise ravens for month - T2 1400mm howis 15mil, T2 Expanded Cargohold 20mil - Hulks 400-500mil Good times...

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